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I am heading up this Friday and Saturday from Cincinnati to do some perch fishing with my son. This will probably be our only trip up this year so I would like him to see some action. Does anybody know if the perch are still biting north of the cans or anywhere else in the vicinity? We will be launching out of Magee East Marina.
Thanks for any information.
There are post in here that says 1 mile north of b can and I myself have been getting them around 2 or 3 mile West of Green and Rattle Snake Is, There around you just have to find them.
Launching from there I would start in the North of B-can area. And then move to C-can if not doing anything at B-can. If you have a VHF Marine radio I will be out and on 72, give me a shout and I will let you know how we are doing. I will probably start North of B-can. It is entirely possible shiners will be in short supply due to the full moon. Some bait stores are already short on shiners.Quote:
Originally Posted by cblewis
OK - thanks guys - looking forward to it.
What size are the shinners you guys get, I am coming from Il this weekend and can bring some with me. We have flatheads, baby roachs and crappie minnows we use all of them in Lake Mich. I am thinking they are more like a crappie minnow. Thanks and we will be on the water Sat afternoon, I ran a Black 2150 Lund Baron I'll be on 72 also.
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Hopefully bait shops should have shinners by this weekend. They have a tuff time getting them when we have a full moon. But the ones we have been getting are on the big size, been cutting them in half and been doing good with them
Coming out of meinke marina west how far of a ride it it to B can??? 10 miles or so?? Thanks
We have been doing the same cutting them into 2 or 3 pieces. It sure beats those Pinheads we usually get this time of year. As far as availability this weekend we will just have to wait and see. The moon is just a little over half of full right now and waning so maybe early night will allow the minnow boats to gather enough to get us by. Seems like it is about 10 days during the full moon period that they are tuff to come by, 4 or 5 days before, during and after the full moon.Quote:
Originally Posted by OHIO_DUCKER2000
You can get a good debate started on here about minnows for perch. The conventional thinking is that nothing beats Lake Shinners and that inland minnows like fatheads don't work very well. Sometimes the bait shops get golden shinners when the Lake Shiners aren't available...some fishermen swear by goldens and some at them. If I couldn't get live shinners, I would take frozen emeralds next over anything else, then goldens third. Spotfin shinners are real good, but hard to find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishin'Lectrician
As for size, I want a 1 1/2 inch thick minnow to hold the hook easily. For bigger minnows lots of times we cut them in two...sometimes all you need is a quarter inch chunk on the hook. Avoid pinheads...they are too skinny to keep on the hook and you get robbed blind.
Good luck
I am not telling you not to bring them as that is a personal choice! But, I do believe it is illegal to bring any fish alive or frozen across the Ohio state lines for use in any body of water in the state. This is due to the VSH disease that can be easily transported in a bucket full or frozen container of bait fish. Even frozen bait fish can still be carriers as the virus can survive freeze thaw cycles. I will post availability of shiners as early as I can on Friday so you will know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishin'Lectrician
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I agree, 1 1/2 to 2 inches is the best size! When pinheads are all that are available I switch to a number 8 hook as the wire is finer and does not destroy the minnow as easily as the commonly used number 4 hook. The perch don't seem to mind the size and readily bite the pinheads. The bad thing with a number 8 hook is that a higher % of the smaller throw back perch are to deeply hooked to be released in a condition that would facilitate survival.Quote:
Originally Posted by LEfriend
Wakina thanks for the heads up on bring minnows. I don't want any trouble with the DNR, we will just get what we can when we get there.
If you launch from Turtle Creek or any where around Davis Bessie there will be or should be frozen shiners available at several locations! That is if there are no fresh live shiners available. Happy Hooker, Deans Drive Thru, Maybe AnJ baits as well as some further west! Good luck. I will post as soon as I can if there are shiners available or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishin'Lectrician
I just made 4 calls and no one has any shiners and they said they would have to get real lucky to have any for tomorrow! Looks like a tuff weekend fishing with Fatheads that A-n-J said they have in stock or frozen ones that could be in short Supply also with all of the fishermen hitting the water this weekend!
A-n-J does not have frozen shiner! I just got off the phone with their shop.
Wakina - If I strike out on the minnows tomorrow I will just switch to walleye. Any reports around the cans where they might / could be?
Happy Hooker and Deans Drive Thru say they have frozen shiners. Deans is located just before the Toussaint River bridge headed East on Rt. 2. It is the BP station.
From the reports that I have gotten there are still some in the triangle that would be formed from Niagara to N Bass to Green and back to Niagara. Big area I know but that is as close as I can tell you. That is where the head boats and some charters are getting them. They gave no spesifics just general area of where they are catching eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by cblewis
wakina just wanted to say,its very nice of you to provide info about things like that (minnow shortage). People that travel a distance to come fish or just to get out and enjoy the lake,may be unaware of of such things.You save them alot of time lookin for bait when they could be out on the water.THANKS!!!
To me that is what this site is all about. It would be a waste of everyone's time if those who know would not share information that is helpful. The phone calls that I made were for information about shiner availability and it would not be right to not pass that info along to the other members. I have 2 other bait stores to check but they are small operations and are not always in their store to take phone calls. So I will post if I find shiners in the morning and where at.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishinnotcatchin
Thank you for the compliment, it is greatly appreciated.
Fisherman's Wharf has a few shiners. I just got some this morning. they said they didn't have a whole lot though so if you need them get them now
Just talked to Dewight at Hi=Way baits and he is getting a truck load in 20 mins.
Dream catcher tackle has shiners also I bought tomorrow supply there this morning. good luck to everybody will post once I get off the lake
Wakina dont take all the shiners i need some this weekend. Last weekend i was walleye fishing ne of niagra a few miles up to the kidney. Old jets 65-80 back spoons and j-7s. I was 5 fish short of 2 days limits not much trash and only a few short eyes.
It was a bumpy ride out this morning and the perch were not in a cooperative mood, we caught 8 keepers in 2hrs about 11/2 miles north of B-can. We made a move to an area about 1 mile North of the can line and half way between B & C-cans. Had good marks so set up and caught 15 in about 20 minutes. Bite slowed down but the keepers were really nice and there was constant action with all the little perch and very little junk fish so we stuck it out. We ended up keeping 48 that weighed 21lbs at the cleaners some really nice perch with 4 or 5 that went 12 inches and several 10 inchers, probably had a 9 inch average. The wind laid down nice in the afternoon and it was a pleasant day fishing. We cut before getting a limit as we are going back out tomorrow and the wife was getting tired so we wrapped it up early for us at 3:00pm and headed in. We found that a 1/2 to a 1/3 piece of shiner depending on size worked best, whole shiners were stripped from the hooks and had to many lost fish with whole shiners.
Hope everyone can find bait tomorrow. Deans drive thru has frozen shiners if you can not find live ones.